Rural America has broadband — or not — says FCC - Real Time Economics - WSJ

May 27, 2009

With $7.2 billion in stimulus money at stake, much has been made of how little broadband Internet service is available in rural America. But a new report from the government agency in charge of devising a national Internet strategy says it doesn’t really know how much of rural America is actually wired.

“We would like to answer this question definitively,” the Federal Communications Commission said in a report released Wednesday. “Regrettably we cannot. The (FCC) and other federal agencies simply have not collected the comprehensive and reliable data needed to answer this question...”